"When we think about the concept of time, we often feel crushed beneath the weight of its inevitability. Or maybe we plunge into precarious waves of nostalgia — fetishizing a “past” we’ve never known that makes the pain of the present all the more real. Cush- ioned between the events of new life and eventual death, time is presumed to be a given, linear Truth. But perhaps if we think of time as a social construct, one which we are capable of collectively trans- forming, more fruitful reconstructions of temporality emerge that fully incorporate pleasurable interruptions, deviant discontinuities, and unsettling surprises — centering time in an abundant politics of desire." (Becca Vorick, Editor's Note p2)
